Be the answer.
Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI before they ever see a results page. Deep Ocean is a specialist AEO/GEO studio that makes brands visible — and citable — inside those answers.
VERIFIED ACROSS CHATGPT · PERPLEXITY · CLAUDE · GOOGLE AI OVERVIEWS
Search didn't disappear.
It submerged.
Discovery is moving below the results page — into answers assembled by AI engines. Classic SEO measures rankings. Nobody's measuring whether the machines can even read you. The surface still gets the attention; the answers get the customers.
Your clients ask why ChatGPT recommends a competitor — and you don't have an answer, or a fix.
Rankings hold steady, but leads keep thinning. The click is being replaced by the answer.
AI Overviews respond before your listing loads. If you're not cited in the answer, you're not in the deal.
AEO Foundation
Entity-level schema architecture
JSON-LD built around the entities that matter in your vertical — organization, services, people, locations — so AI engines parse who you are, not just what your pages say.
llms.txt implementation
A machine-readable brief of your site, written for the crawlers that feed AI answers. What you do, for whom, and where the proof lives — in the format they actually consume.
AI crawler verification
Documented proof that GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended can reach — and read — what matters. Before and after, in writing. Most agencies can't show you this.
Visibility playbook
A short, honest strategy doc: how to keep the machine-readable layer current as content grows, and what to monitor so visibility compounds instead of decaying.
Scope assumes one site of moderate complexity. Multi-location and large-catalog builds are scoped separately — deliberately, so timelines stay honest.
The Bouncer Method
Every AI engine sends a crawler to your door before it ever mentions your name. The Bouncer Method decides what gets in — and what it sees.
Map the door
Hadal, our continuous audit engine, maps exactly how AI crawlers currently see the site — access, structure, entities, gaps.
Set the list
Schema architecture and llms.txt built to the audit, not a template. The machine-readable layer says what the site never quite did.
Check the room
Per-engine access confirmed and documented. Not "should work" — verified, with evidence you can hand to a skeptical stakeholder.
Count the guests
Citation and visibility tracking across engines, before/after. Attribution in this category is hard; we do it in writing.
Every engagement runs the same four moves. That's the point — a repeatable system, not a custom fire drill — and it's why the scope, timeline, and price hold.
Evidence, not promises.
We run the method on ourselves first.
This site is our first subject: full entity schema, llms.txt, and per-engine crawler verification — documented in the same report every client receives. Ask for it, and judge the rigor before spending a dollar.
Sample report available on request — it's the exact deliverable format.
Two ways in.
We're your AEO team.
For companies that want AI visibility handled by specialists, end to end.
- Fixed-scope Foundation, delivered in three weeks
- Verification evidence you can show the board
- Ongoing Care to keep visibility compounding
Your logo. Our depth.
Your clients are already asking about AI visibility. We're the delivery arm that lets you say yes — invisibly.
- Deliverables ship under your brand
- You keep the relationship and the markup
- Repeatable process, predictable turnaround
AI Visibility Audit
Hadal audit of how AI engines currently see you, with a prioritized gap report. The low-risk first step.
AEO Foundation
Schema architecture, llms.txt, crawler verification, and playbook. The full machine-readable layer, delivered and documented.
Care
Monitoring, net-new schema as content grows, and quarterly re-verification. Visibility maintained, not just installed.
Agency partners: white-label pricing is shared privately — your margin is your business, and your clients never see our rates.
The deep end is quieter than you think.
One conversation. We'll tell you honestly whether AI visibility is your problem — and exactly what fixing it looks like.
Book an AI Visibility Audit or write to hello@deepoceanstudio.com